|a Initial Lake County load m2btab.test019 in 2018.'Snow Leopard' by Peter Matthiessen is a non-fiction book detailing the author's trip into the Himalayas to search for the elusive and mystical mountain cat known as the snow leopard. |a Initial Lake County load m2btab.test019 in 2018.10 |a Himalaya Mountains |x Description and travel. |a Natural history |z Himalaya Mountains. |a National Book Award, Nonfiction, 1979. |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |a The snow leopard / |c Peter Matthiessen. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by acclaimed travel writer and novelist Pico Iyer.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), the National Book Award-winning author of the new novel In Paradise

The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen